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REPS Promises Action On Security Challenge - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 9, 2024
The Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, said this when he addressed a World News Conference in Abuja.
He said the lawmakers were committed to ensuring justice, and restore peace and order in every part of the country.
Abbas said that President Bola Tinubu, had demonstrated unwavering commitment to improving the security situation in the country, by enhancing the capability of the armed forces.
He explained that the acquisition of the state-of-the-art aircraft such as T-129 ATAK helicopter and the King Air 360 aircraft by the Nigerian Air Force was an indication of government’s commitment to investing in the security infrastructure.
He added that the step reflected a proactive stance in adapting to the dynamic challenges of modern warfare and a commitment to providing the armed forces with the best tools to defend Nigeria and its people.
He commended Tinubu on his response on the issue of food security, adding that the 2023 Supplementary Budget provided a N200bn palliative package.

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Reps Reject Bill For Special Seats For Women In Parliament - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 2, 2022
This followed the rejection of the bill at the electronic voting on the amendment of 1999 Constitution in Abuja
The bill entitled,” A Bill for an Act to Alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to Provide For Special Seats for Women at the National and State Houses of Assembly”.
Eight-one lawmakers voted in favour of the bill, while 208 voted against it and 13 members abstained from voting.
Present at the voting was Dolapo Osinbajo, the wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who tried to lobby for the adoption of the bill by the lawmakers.
Dolapo was accompanied by the Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, Civil Society Organisations and women groups.
The lawmakers also rejected a bill for an Act to alter the provisions of the 1999 constitution to provide for affirmative action for women in political party administration.

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Reps Seek Automatic Employment For First Class Graduates - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 17, 2022
This followed the adoption of a motion by Emeka Chinedu at plenary in Abuja.
Presenting the motion, Chinedu expressed concern over lack of employment for many Nigerian graduates, especially first class degree holders, forcing them to seek for greener pastures abroad.
Chinedu said that hundreds of first class graduates were being produced yearly from Nigerian Universities, saying that only a fraction of them get employed at the end of the day.
According to him, graduating with a first class in any Institution of learning is an indication of a grade A–brain.
Chinedu said that automatic employment for first-class graduates would motivate other students to work harder.
Abdurrazak Namdaz said that a first class graduate might not necessarily be the most qualified person for a particular job.

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Reps Seek Enforcement Of Compulsory Teaching Of Moral Lessons In Schools - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 30, 2021
This followed the adoption of a motion by Uju Chima, on the floor of the House, in Abuja.
Moving the motion, Chima noted that good morals and proper orientation remained indisputable basic components of child upbringing and training.
He added that a lack of it, especially in young people, would result in societal decay, while recalling that moral instructions was a compulsory subject in Nigeria schools curricula in the past.
The lawmaker noted that due to the removal of moral instructions from the school system, the current generation of youths lack the benefits of such lessons, and may end up as nuisances in the society.
He stated that with the increasing rate of violence and various forms of immorality in recent times, there was need for reintroduction and enforcement of the teaching of moral lessons and orientation.

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Reps Seek Local Drugs For Virus Treatment, Management - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 13, 2020
House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to support and encourage the use of locally developed remedies for the management and treatment of COVID-19 ailments.
The House said this would enable Nigerians to ascertain their efficacy.
Health Minister, Osagie Ehanire, had told the House that the government was not ruling out the possibility of using local drug for the treatment of the virus.
He insisted that the efficacy of such local drugs must first be ascertained.
Adopting a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Ossy Prestige, the House mandated its Committee on Health to interface with relevant government agencies to ensure that locally developed remedies for the treatment of COVID-19 are included in the clinical trials by the World Health Organisation WHO under its solidarity initiative.
Prestige told the House that even though the WHO had not found any effective cure or vaccine for this virus, it had launched an international clinical trial, called Solidarity, to help find an effective cure for this disease.


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REPS Seek N36b Special Fund For States - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 29, 2020
The House of Representatives debated the mysterious deaths in Kano State and resolved to ask that 1 billion naira be made available by the Federal Government to each of the 36 states.
The 1 billion naira intervention is to enable the states provide the needed facilities to combat and prevent further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lawmakers said the impact of the lockdown caused by the spread of the virus has negative financial impact on the state, some of which  are already struggling to survive.
The House also agreed to summon the  Chairman of the Presidential Committee on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha; Health Minister Osagie Ehanire and the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, over the mass deaths in Kano.
These are highlights of the resolutions reached by the lawmakers while debating a motion yesterday.
The House directed its Health Committee to investigate the deaths, which have created fear among residents of the state.


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Reps Seek Stiffer Penalties Against Unregistered, Unqualified Teachers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 2, 2023
It also approved the recommendations of the report of the Committee on Basic Education and Services on a Bill for an Act to Amend the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria Act, Cap. T3, Laws of Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The recommendations of the report of the Committee, chaired by Julius Ihonvbere, were considered and approved during plenary.
The Green Chamber also put in place measures to ensure that only licensed or registered and qualified persons with thorough professional conduct teach in schools.
The House, following the adoption of the committee’s reports on the call for Recruitment of Qualified and Registered Teachers in Nigerian Schools, urged the Teacher Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN to publicise the data of quacks and unqualified teachers per state across Nigeria.


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REPS Shoot Down Bill To Check JAPA - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 16, 2023
A new member of the House, Philip Agbese, had moved a motion titled, ‘Need to Declare Emigration of Young Nigerians Abroad A.K.A Japa Syndrome a National Emergency,’ urging the government to convene a national summit with key stakeholders to effectively address the Japa syndrome.
Agbese also prayed the House to declare a state of emergency on the factors that predispose young Nigerians to give up on Nigeria in preference for other nations.
Agbese expressed concern that if the trend was allowed to continue Nigeria may fall into a grave crisis.
However, after a ranking member of the House, Dennis Idahosa, seconded the motion, another ranking member, Sada Soli, raised a constitutional point of order to say that the motion would infringe on the fundamental rights of Nigerians if adopted by the chamber.
When the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, eventually put adoption of the motion to voice vote, the lawmakers unanimously voted against it.


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Reps Step Down N543.6bn Judgment Debt Payment - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 9, 2023
Chairman of the House Committee on Aids, Loans and Debt Management Ahmed Dayyabu, presented the report on the presidential request on Wednesday, but the lawmakers resolved that work had not been concluded on it and stepped down its consideration till the 10 House.
Buhari had last month, at the twilight of his administration, written to the National Assembly to seek approval for payment of judgment debts owed by the government to the tune of 566.8 billion dollars, 98.5 million pounds and 226.2 billion naira.
According to the President, in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, the government will make the payment through the issuance of promissory notes.
Meanwhile, the House considered and adopted the report by the ‘Ad-hoc committee to investigate the alleged loss of over $2.4 billion dollars in revenue from the illegal sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil in 2015 including crude oil exports from 2014 to date.


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Reps Summon Aregbesola, Nis Boss Over Foreign Missions’ Visa, Passport Contracts - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 20, 2021
The committee also summoned the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Shuaib Belgore; and the Acting Comptroller-General of the NIS, Idris Jere, to appear before it on Wednesday to address the issue.
It was gathered the summons was issued when an Assistant Comptroller-General in charge of Budget, Olubusola Fashakin, appeared before the committee to represent Jere over a query issued by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation against the NIS.
Chairman of the committee, Oluwole Oke said the arrangement was costing Nigeria a lot of money and should be stopped immediately, since the country has personnel who have been trained to carry out the same functions.

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Reps Summon NNPC GMD Over Alleged Award Of Coastal Shipping Contract To Foreigner - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 7, 2021
The Chairman, House Committee on Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring, Legor Idagbor, issued the summons in Abuja, during an investigative hearing on the contract allegedly awarded in 2020.
The House said if the NNPC failed to appear, the process of the law and the powers given to the National Assembly would be followed to deal with the corporation.
The House also summoned the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, as well as the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board NCDMB.
He directed the NNPC, Transportation Ministry and the NCDMB to furnish the committee with every single detail of the contract, as it did not have a single document in relation to the contract in its possession.

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Reps Task Security Agencies On Criminals In Enugu Communities - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 8, 2024
This followed the adoption of a motion by Martins Oke at plenary in Abuja.
Presenting the motion, Oke said that the inhabitants of the communities had been thrown into fear following the activities of the criminals.
Adopting the motion, the House observed a one minute silence in honour of those killed during attacks on the communities and urged the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA to provide relief materials to the victims. It urged heads of security agencies in the country to deploy additional security personnel to the communities


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Reps Threaten Bank With Takeover Over Debt, MD’s Arrest - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 22, 2021
The threat was made by its ad hoc committee on the assessment and status of all recovered loots from 2002 to 2020 by agencies of the Federal Government for effective efficient management and utilisation.
The committee also threatened to issue an arrest warrant on the Managing Director of Polaris Bank for failing to appear before it to explain why the bank had not remitted over 32 million dollars owed to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
The Chairman of the committee, Adejoro Adeogun, issued the threats at an investigative hearing in Abuja.
The committee, however, turned back all representatives of the banks as well as the Accountant General of the Federation, saying they lacked the capacity to answer the questions from the committee, giving them till Wednesday next week to appear.

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Reps Threatens Heads Of NNPC Subsidiaries With Arrest Over Non-Appearance - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 30, 2022
The threat followed the failure of the leadership of the 17 subsidiaries to honour its invitation for a public hearing on the alleged non-remittance of crude oil proceeds to the Federal Government coffers.
At the resumed hearing of the panel, the lawmakers directed NNPC Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, to produce heads of the 17 subsidiaries indicated by the report of the Auditor-General for the Federation for financial infractions between 2014 and 2019.
Chairman of the committee, Oluwole Oke, accused Kyari of shielding the officials.
But the GMD insisted that the company was not hiding anything from Nigerians, while also dismissing earlier media reports that about 107 million barrels of crude oil could not be accounted for in 2018.


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Reps To Forward All Security Resolutions To NSA, Ribadu. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 23, 2024
The decision followed the adoption of a motion moved by the Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda and others.
In the last few weeks, lawmakers have been lamenting the worsening level of insecurity in the country, despite the number of security motions moved by the House.
The introduction of security motions have become a daily routine as members from across the country move different motions for government intervention without results.
Moving the motion, Chinda said the country is grappling with insecurity without any result in sight.

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Reps To Investigate From 1999 Till Date - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 25, 2019
The House of Representatives has resolved to set upa committee to investigate abandoned projects of the Federal Government from1999 till date.
This followed a motion moved by Francis Uduyokduring the plenary session presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase inAbuja.
Leading the debate, Uduyok expressed dismay at thealarming number of abandoned projects awarded to contractors by differentgovernments, ministries, departments, agencies, commissions and boards since1999.
The lawmaker said the projects awarded wereestimated to be over 20,000 and payments of not less than 50 per cent amountingto billions of naira had been made in advance.
He said the abandoned projects included importantestablishments like dams, hospitals, buildings, bridges, steel companies androads.
The house expressed concern that the abandonedprojects contributed to the poor economic health of the country due toinflationary rate obtained when the projects had to be revived.


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Reps To Investigate Incessant Killings In Zamfara Communities - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 21, 2024
The call followed the adoption of a motion of Urgent Public Importance, presented by Hassan Shinkafi during plenary in Abuja.
Shinkafi said that the attacks came at a period when citizens were experiencing hardship due to economic challenges
The lawmaker said the attacks had caused severe pains to residents of the affected communities.
Adopting the motion, the House urged the Inspector General of Police to set up a tactical team to unravel the mystery behind the attacks and report to the House in two weeks.
The House also urged the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA to urgently support victims in the affected areas with relief materials

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Reps To Investigate N1.2tn Of Unremitted FG Funds In Commercial Banks - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 27, 2022
The lower chamber of the National Assembly also alleged that 71 million Nigerians were operating bank accounts without proper identification.
The total amount being held by commercial banks is allegedly worth 1.2 trillion naira.
The committee, which is headed by Unyime Idem, would investigate the unremitted funds as well as infractions by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission ICPC, has faulted the global anti-corruption coalition, Transparency International TI, which rated Nigeria the second most corrupt country in West Africa.
Speaking at an event, media consultant to the ICPC chairman, Oluyinka Akintunde, in his presentation on Nigeria’s global anti-corruption coalition assessment, said the report was based on outdated data sources.

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Reps To Investigate N413bn Subsidy Funds Borrowed From CBN - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 2, 2023
The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee said the probe is to determine whether the said amount was refunded after the passage and assent of the 2015 budget, as earlier approved by the President at that time.
Chairman of the Committee, Ibrahim Mustapha Aliyu, while submitting its report to the House also urged the Federal Government to put in palliative measures to mitigate the effects of subsidy removal on Nigerians.
The report also demanded that the government halt the direct sale of crude oil and take measures to determine the nation’s actual crude oil production.
It added that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL should act by the provision of the PIA to ensure that the country is not short-changed in the production, lifting and sales of crude oil.


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Reps To Resume Tuesday After Five Weeks Break - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 27, 2020
The House of Representatives has planned to resume plenary on tomorrow Tuesday April 28, after a five weeks break.
The Clerk of the House, Patrick Giwa, made this known in a statement, while staff and aides of the lawmakers were asked to continue to work from home.
It added that the Covid-19 guidelines approved by the Federal Government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC and additional guidelines developed by the House will be sent to members’ pigeon holes for collection on resumption.


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Reps To Sanction MDAs For 2021 Budget Implementation Failures, Says Spokesman - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 15, 2021
The spokesman of the house, Benjamin Kalu made this known at a news conference, in Abuja, after the 2022 budget passed second reading on the floor of the house.
Kalu said that the house frowns at MDAs that took monies from government and failed to implement what it was meant for, adding that the house was determined to change the narrative.
The lawmaker said that the house would also be on the look for MDAs that ignored resolutions of the house in their budget preparation, because as representatives of the people house had moved several motion meant to be implemented by the MDAs, but were not reflected in the budget.
Kalu announced that the house had adjourned to Nov. 9 to allow us consider the budget at the committee level.

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REPS Urge FG To Provide Relief For Victims Of Banditry In Kaduna - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 4, 2022
This followed the adoption of a motion by Shehu Balarabe at the plenary in Abuja.
Presenting the motion, Balarabe said that attacks, killings, and kidnappings of people as well as destruction of property by suspected bandits in the state has taken awful dimension and has become a daily affair in Giwa/Birnin Gwari Federal Constituency.
He added that suspected bandits had displaced most communities in the area, adding that the attacks were being carried out day and night.
The House, therefore, urged the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, the National Emergency Management Agency, and the National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons to intervene by providing relief materials to the victims.
The House also mandated its Committee on Emergency and Disaster preparedness to ensure compliance.


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Reps Want NSITF Mgt Back - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 24, 2020
The House of Representatives faulted the processes leading to the suspension of top management and Executive Committee members of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund NSITF and asked that they be reinstated immediately.
This form part of the recommendations of the adhoc Committee set up by the House to investigate the arbitrary breach of presidential directives on the suspension of top management and Executive Committee members of NSITF.
The report was tabled before the House at plenary by Chairman of the Committee, Miriam Onuoha, but a member of the Committee Ifeanyi Momah objected to the submission of the report saying he only became aware that the report will be submitted that day.
He said he was not given the opportunity to make his own input and requested that the report be stepped down for him to make his own input.
However, members of the Committee said he was the only one out of the 16 members of the Committee who did not sign the report.

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Republic Of Guinea Bissau :Buhari Jets Out Thursday For National Day Celebration - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 23, 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Thursday, leave Abuja for Bissau to attend ceremonies celebrating the National Day of the Republic of Guinea Bissau on September 24.
The President will join the Heads of State and Government of Senegal, Cote d’ Ivoire, Rwanda, Mauritania, Togo and Liberia to mark the 47th independence anniversary of Guinea Bissau.
In Bissau, President Buhari will also commission a road named in his honour by the host government.
Buhari and other invited Heads of State, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, will attend an official lunch hosted by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea Bissau.
Nigeria and Guinea Bissau established diplomatic relations in 1974.

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Rerun: INEC Pledges Credible Elections In All Polling Units - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 25, 2020
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC hasvowed the conduct credible elections in all the polling units where the Courtordered that re-run elections would take place on Saturday.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Voter Education andInformation Committee, Festus Okoye, who gave the assurance in Abuja said theelections would hold as planned in all affected areas.
The Commission is conducting court-ordered re-run electionsin twenty-eight constituencies in eleven States of the federation.
Okoye added that INEC had engaged the political parties andthe candidates on acceptable electoral behaviour, while security agencies havecommitted to professional security deployment and protection of voters andelection officials.
He also urged all stakeholders in the elections in affectedareas to play by the rules and shun violence.

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Rescheduled Elections – 1: APC Demands Transparency From INEC Ahead Of - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 18, 2019
The All Progressives Congress, APC Directorate ofElection Planning and Monitoring have demanded more transparency from theIndependent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The party urged the commission to be open in itsdealings ahead of the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Directorate of Election Planning and Monitoringand Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, made the demand ata news conference in Abuja. He was reacting to the postponement of theelections by INEC.
However, Fashola said there was need for thecommission to keep Nigerians updated on preparations for the rescheduledelections. He also demanded more transparency.
The INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, had a few hours tocommencement of the presidential and National Assembly elections, announced therescheduling by one week of the elections earlier scheduled for February16to 23,while the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections come up on March 9.

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Rescheduled Elections - 2: Airspace Will Remain Open During Exercise – NAMA - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 18, 2019
The Nigerian Airspace ManagementAgency said the airspace would remain open during the general elections.
The agency said in line with thedirective of the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, it had earlierensured a 24-hour operation at all Nigerian airports on Friday, February 15, tofacilitate the transportation of the Independent National ElectoralCommission’s materials nationwide.
In a statement signed by the GeneralManager, Public Affairs, NAMA, Khalid Emele, the agency reassures all airspaceusers and the general public that the Nigerian airspace shall remain open forall users before, during and after the rescheduled 2019 general elections.The agency stated that there was also nodisruption in the provision of air traffic services on Saturday, February 16, inkeeping with the mandate to provide uninterrupted safe, effective, efficient, andeconomic air navigation services in the country.


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Research Collaboration: NAFDAC Advocates Adequate Policy - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 6, 2019
The National Agencyfor Food, Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC on Tuesday called for adequatepolicy to ensure collaboration among researchers in the country.
The Agency’sDirector-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, made the call at the 10 J.K.Ladipo Biennial Memorial Lecture, in commemoration of the 25 anniversaryof his demise.
Adeyeye who wasrepresented by his Technical Assistant on Food and Stakeholders, SimideleOnabajo, said having a policy will ensure that collaborated efforts to belinked to the end result.
She noted that apolicy would also help in tightening linkages, by ensuring that industrymembers identify themselves through collaboration in research activities.
Adeyeye listed the benefits of collaboration in research as: commercialisation of results, learning, access to funds, grants and others and ensure knowledge transfer.

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Research Devt: Union Lauds FG Over Establishment Of Council - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 30, 2019
National Secretary-General, AcademicStaff Union of Research Institutions, Theophilus Ndabuaku, has commended theFederal Government for establishing the National Research Organisation Councilto re-position research in Nigeria.
Ndabuaku gave the commendation onTuesday, in Abuja, during a rally organised by the Union to appreciate governmentfor setting up the council.
Ndabuaku described as unacceptablethe dependence of institutional research on budgetary allocation, which wasmost times inadequate and unable to achieve any meaningful result.
He noted that most researcherspersonally funded their research work because if they failed to do so, they wouldnot be promoted or obtain higher degrees.He said though Nigeria had 150 researchinstitutions, centres and allied institutions, not much was being done toharness the human, material and natural resources to fund research and bringabout development.


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Research: Federal Government Gives N25m Grants To Five Institutes - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 18, 2019
The Federal Government has approved twenty-five millionnaira grant to five research institutions for their contribution to nationaldevelopment.
The Institutions include: the Nigerian Academy of Science,the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, the Nigerian Academy of Letters, theNigerian Academy of Education and the Nigerian Academy of Social Science.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu whilespeaking at the event, urged the institutes to work in synergy and apply theirknowledge to solve the nation’s numerous challenges. He listed some challengesas corruption, insecurity and economy.
He described the institutes as reservoirs of knowledge,which could be of great benefit to the nation in its  bid to achievegreatness.
Earlier, the President of the Nigerian Academy ofEngineering, Fola Lasisi, while speaking on behalf of the recipients, expressedgratitude to the ministry for blazing the trail in the search forknowledge-driven technology development in the country and assured on behalf ofthe other academies to put judicious use the grants awarded to them.

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Research: Federal Government To Establish National Technology Innovation Centers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 7, 2021
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Ogbonna Onu announced this at a working visit to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state.
Head, Press and Public Relations of the ministry, Josephine Ademu in a statement in Abuja, said Onu noted that increased focus on solution driven research would help increase the commercialisation of scientific research results.
He also called for active local production for all goods and services that are needed in country, saying Nigerian goods, services and innovations must be of global standards to meet local demands and encourage exports.
Obaseki, while responding, explained that for government to deliver on its mandate, all aspects of government must embrace Science, Technology and Innovation, STI. he however, advocated for strengthening and creation of an enabling environment for local innovators.

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Research: Science Minister Says FG To Deepen Efforts Toward Commercialisation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
May 25, 2019
The Federal Government said it would intensify efforts toward ensuring research findings in the country were commercialised.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu made the assertion when he visited the National Board for Technology Incubation, NBTI-Enabled Honey Making Factory in Kuje Area Council, Abuja.
The NBTI is an agency under the Ministry of Science and Technology that is in charge of significant incubations in the country.
Onu said concrete efforts would be made to produce what Nigerians need, urging citizens to consume products that were made in the country.
The NBTI Director General, Mohamed Jibrin said the Board  would help the factory to  further collaborate with investors, governments and other relevant research institutes to boost quality and quantity of production.


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Resident Doctors’ Strike: Industrial Action Continues Until All Our Demands Are Met - NARD - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 26, 2021
The striking health workers made the declaration at the end of their
National Executive Council meeting in Abuja.
The leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors, accused
the  federal government of misinterpreting court ruling.
Meanwhile, no fewer than 500 doctors attended a recruitment exercise
organised by the Saudi Arabian government in Abuja on Tuesday.
The prospective employees said they can longer trust the sincerity of the
Nigerian government in developing the country’s health system.
Reacting to the development, Minister of Labour and Employment,
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Resident Doctors To Commence 5-Day Warning Strike On Wednesday - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 16, 2023
President of the association, Innocent Orji, announced this while speaking with the newsmen on the outcome of its National Executive Council, NEC meeting.
Recall that the Resident Doctors had on April 29 issued a two-week notice to the Federal Government to increase the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS, or risk industrial action.
It said at the time that the increment should be to the tune of 200 percent of the current gross salary of doctors, and also be in addition to the new allowances included in the letter written to the Minister of Health in 2022 for the review of CONMESS.
According to the association, it observed that in spite of several engagements with the Federal Government on the need to upwardly review CONMESS, which was last reviewed over 10 years ago, there are no changes.
Orji, however, said that since the issuance of the two-week notice, the association had not been called upon by the Federal Government to initiate negotiations.


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Residential Poll: APP Withdraws Petition Challenging Tinubu’s Victory. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 11, 2023
The counsel to the APP, Obed Agu, also asked the court to strike out and dismiss the suit.
Agu said he was working on the instructions of his client. In reaction, counsel to Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun, said he and his client are not opposing the application for withdrawal, adding that they also are not asking for cost.
Chairman of the Panel, Justice Haruna Tsammani, subsequently dismissed the suit with no cost attached.
The APP was challenging the Presidential Election on the grounds of alleged non-compliance with the electoral laws as well and INEC guidelines.


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Residents Allege Extortion As Mambilla Power Project Execution Drags - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
October 20, 2021
Part of the report, which was aired today by Trust TV station, uncovered that over N3 billion has been budgeted in the last 10 years for the survey, mapping and compensation around the project site.
The project had been on the drawing board for over 40 years.
The federal government is expected to pay compensation to locals so that they would move out to pave way for the take-off of the multi-billion naira project that will provide electricity and expand the potentials of the agriculture sector.
While the take-off of the project remains a mirage amidst repeated optimism in government circles, some of the locals living around the site for the proposed Mambilla Hydropower Project have voiced out their reservations over the attitude of the people sent to conduct survey works in the place.

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Resignation: Buhari To Decide Fate Of Ministers Who Shelved Political Ambitions - Presidency - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
May 19, 2022
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after the weekly virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC.
Mohammed said he needed to confirm the position of things as regard the status of the returning cabinet members on whether they have been properly reabsorbed or otherwise.
It was reported that the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Abubakar Malami was present at the Council’s meeting on Wednesday, while the Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen and Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva attended the meeting virtually from their various offices in Abuja.
Also, Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige, who also rescinded his decision to participate in the party’s primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC was reported to be on an official visit to South Africa.
It will be recalled that President Buhari on May 13 met with outgoing 10 ministers at a valedictory session in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.


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Resources Management: Next Senate’ll Probe Saraki – APC Senators - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
March 1, 2019
Some senators-elect said that Senate PresidentBukola Saraki will be investigated over his tenure when they are inaugurated inJune.
The senators, who won a return to the upper legislativechamber in last week’s presidential and National Assembly elections, said theSenate would be interested in knowing how Saraki managed its resources andhandled national budgets over the four years he held sway as its President.
Saraki became President for the 8th Senate in 2015through a controversial circumstance that created a rift between the FederalGovernment and the All Progressives Congress APC dominated Red Chamber of theAssembly.
The Senate President subsequently left the rulingAPC over the irreconcilable differences and rejoined the People’s DemocraticParty PDP.
He, however, lost his re-election bid, as well asthe opportunity to return to the Senate when he was defeated in the contest forthe Kwara Central senatorial district last week.��������3���


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Resources Management: Next Senate’ll Probe Saraki – APC Senators - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
March 1, 2019
Some senators-elect said that Senate PresidentBukola Saraki will be investigated over his tenure when they are inaugurated inJune.
The senators, who won a return to the upperlegislative chamber in last week’s presidential and National Assemblyelections, said the Senate would be interested in knowing how Saraki managedits resources and handled national budgets over the four years he held sway asits President.
Saraki became President for the 8th Senate in 2015through a controversial circumstance that created a rift between the FederalGovernment and the All Progressives Congress APC dominated Red Chamber of theAssembly.
The Senate President subsequently left the ruling APC over the irreconcilable differences and rejoined the People’s Democratic Party PDP. He, however, lost his re-election bid, as well as the opportunity to return to the Senate when he was defeated in the contest for the Kwara Central senatorial district last week .


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Resources: Nigeria Has The Best Purified Gold And Gemstones In The World - Ooni Of Ife - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
September 9, 2019
TheOoni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, says that Nigeria is among the countries inthe world endowed with the  best purifiedgold and gemstones that can change her economic and social narrativespositively.
ObaOgunwusi spoke during the official unveiling of the Oduduwa Heritage MobileMuseum at the Brazilian Embassy in Lagos.
Theevent reports that the inauguration was performed by Oba Ogunwusi, founderof  the House of Oduduwa  Foundation, and the Acting Consul-General ofBrazil in Lagos, Helges Bandeira
Theevent also coincided with the 197th independence anniversary of Brazil thatgained independence from Portugal on Sept. 7, 1822.
Themonarch then urged Nigerians to wake up from their slumbers instead of cryingover spilled milk.
Alsospeaking, the Acting Consul-General of Brazil in Lagos, Mr HelgesBandeira,  appreciated Nigeria for givinghis country the honour of showcasing African heritage for  Africans.m0!�Xg�

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Responsibility: Buratai Tasks Army Officers On Global Best Practice In Handling Documents - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
May 31, 2019
The Chief of ArmyStaff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai has urged Officers to be alive to theirresponsibilities by ensuring proper handling of documents in their custodyin line with global best practices.
Buratai made the callat the closing ceremony of  2019 Army Officers’ Office Management andDocument Security Workshop,  held at the one-Division Nigeria Army, Kaduna.
The Army Chief explained that the essence of the workshop was to remind officers on document security and office management techniques. He reminded the participants of the need to place high premium on occupying public office as well as managing and securing documents.
He noted that thepresence of sister security agencies at the workshop was a testimony to thefact that security agencies were working in synergy.
Buratai advised the participants to bring the knowledge acquired at the workshop to bear in their various units and formations for optimal performance.


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Restricted Items :Buhari Directs CBN To Blacklist Firms Importing Palm Oil, 42 Other Items - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
June 14, 2019
PresidentMuhammadu Buhari has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to blacklist anyfirm, its owner and top management caught smuggling or dumping any of therestricted 43 items into Nigeria.
ThePresidential directive was disclosed by the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele onFriday in Abuja during a meeting with oil palm producers.
Emefielealso said the presidential directive mandated the apex bank to expand andprovide support to firms and individuals that want to expand the production often different commodities in Nigeria.
Theten different products are rice, maize, cassava, tomatoes, cotton, oil palm,poultry, fish, livestock dairy and cocoa.


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Result Collation: INEC Announces Atiku Winner In Abia - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
February 26, 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC hasannounced the People’s Democratic Party, PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar aswinner of Saturday’s presidential election in Abia state.
The result was announced at the National Collation CentreAbuja, by Chinedum Nwajiuba, the Vice-Chancellor, Alex Ekwueme FederalUniversity Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi who was the Collation Officer for theelection in the state.
Similarly, Donald Duke of Social Democratic Party, SDP wasannounced as coming third with 472 votes.
Nwajiuba noted that 98 polling units across seven LocalGovernment Areas of the state were affected, while the number of registeredvoters affected was 59,825.
Nwajiuba announced that Atiku polled 219,698 votes to defeatthe All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, President Buhari, who scored85,048 votes.

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Results: INEC Declares Plateau Central National Assembly Election Inconclusive - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
February 26, 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,Returning Officer, Plateau Central Senatorial District, Matau Bernard-Malau hasdeclared the National Assembly election in Kanam Local Government Areainconclusive.
Addressing Party agents, observers and INEC officials at thePankshin Collation Centre, the returning officer, said that the decision becameimperative due to the problems encountered while receiving the results from thearea.
After the announcement, the returning officer packed histhings to go when he was forced to put it down in writing for all agents tosign.
Bernard-Malau thereafter, directed his colleague JosephMangut, Returning Officer for the House of Representatives election, to put upthe write up, which he signed and gave to the agents as a proof.


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Resumption: CISLAC Sets Agenda For National Assembly - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
January 28, 2020
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC has called on the National Assembly, NASS to prioritise the amendment of the Electoral Reforms Act to promote credibility and transparency in the electoral processes.
The Centre’s Executive Director, Auwal Musa-Rafsanjani, madethis appeal in a statement in Abuja, as the NASS resumes plenary.
He urged members of the legislature to expedite urgentaction on Constitutional Amendment to resolve certain fundamental issues in thecountry.
Musa-Rafsanjani said that it was paramount to develop legalframeworks for constituency engagement and consultation, to ensure full participationof the electorate in understanding of constituency projects implementation.
He said that as the NASS was resuming its legislative dutiesfor the year, domestication of the pending global and regional anti-corruptioninstruments for coordination and result-oriented approach in anti-corruptionfights could not be over-emphasised.
According to him, NASS should ensure prompt reform of thesecurity sector and revisit Asset Recovery and Proceeds on Crime Bills, byproviding a legal and institutional framework.

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Retirees’ Benefits: NLC Commends FG’s Decision To Release N7.45 Billion - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
July 15, 2020
The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC has commended the Federal Government’s decision to release 7.45 billion naira accrued rights and benefits of Federal civil servants to the retirees Retirement Savings Account RSAs.
NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, gave this commendation in a letter addressed to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige in Abuja.
Wabba said that the gesture by the Federal Government was indeed commendable.
The NLC leadership had, on September 19, 2019, written to the Ministry of Labour and Employment seeking the remittance of accrued rights and benefits of Federal civil servants to the retirees’ RSAs.
He called on government to also consider the plight of retirees from June 2019 to July 2020, and expressed optimism that the request would be kindly considered.


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Retirement: Presidency Not Aware Of Oyo-Ita’s Purported Letter - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
August 19, 2019
The Presidency on Monday declared that it was notaware of the purported move of the Head of Service of the Federation, WinifredOyo-Ita, to retire from service.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCChad last week Tuesday grilled Oyo-Ita over alleged 3 billion Naira scam.
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity,Mallam Garba Shehu, in a text message said that the Presidency was not inpossession of any letter of intent from Oyo-Ita to retire from service.


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Retreat: Ministers’ Sack Looms As Buhari Supervises Appraisal - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
October 12, 2021
The president alluded to this at the opening of a two-day Mid-Term Ministerial Performance Review Retreat organised to assess the achievements of the nine key priorities of the administration and the performances of top government functionaries.
The retreat is being attended by ministers, permanent secretaries and other top government officials.
Buhari said that he will sit through all the sessions to listen to the cumulative assessment of the administration’s performance over the last 2 years.
In his speech the president warned all ministers and permanent secretaries to take issues relating to the implementation of their mandates towards the attainment of the objectives of his administration seriously.
The president had in September fired the Ministers of Agriculture, Mohammed Sabo Nanono, and his counterpart in the Ministry of Power, Saleh Mamman over poor performance.
In a statement, Buhari through his spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the removal of Nanono and Mamman was sequel to the “Tradition of subjecting our projects and programmes implementation to independent and critical self-review” through sector reporting during cabinet meetings and at retreats.

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Return Fixture: Rohr Confident Eagles Will Beat Sierra Leone - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 01
November 16, 2020
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr is confident Nigeria will beat Sierra Leone in the return leg of a 2022 African Cup of Nations qualifier after the 1994 AFCON champions threw away a four-goal lead to draw the first leg of the match.
While explaining why the Nigerian team drew the first leg of the match in Benin City on Friday despite a four-goal lead, he said the players did not maintain the energy they used in the first half of the game.
He stated that the surprising draw against the Leone Stars is a lesson to the side, reiterating that “we will react, if they will be lucky or not I cannot promise you but they will fight and go there to win the match.”
The team captain, Ahmed Musa had earlier apologized to Nigerians for the result, promising that the Eagles “will correct their  mistakes in the next game.”
The Super Eagles will travel to Freetown for the return leg on Tuesday, November 17, 2020.

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Returnees: NEMA Receives 153 Nigerians From Libya - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
August 28, 2019
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA hasreceived another batch of 153 stranded Nigerians from Libya.
The Director-General of the agency, MustaphaMaihajja, represented by an official of the agency, Slaku Lugard, received thereturnees today in Lagos.
Maihaja said that the Nigerians arrived at the CargoWing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
He said that the Nigerians were brought by theInternational Organisation for Migration, IOM and European Union on theplatform of the Assisted Voluntary Returnees, AVR Programme.
Maihaja added that the returnees comprised fiftynine female adults, four female children and seven female infants as well asseventy eight adult males, three male children and two male infants.


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Revenue: FAAC Disburses N1.92tn To FG, States, LGS In First Quarter - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 22, 2019
The Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC has disbursed one point ninety two trillion naira to the three tiers of government in the first quarter of this year.
The National Bureau of Statistics said this in FAAC monthly allocation for January, February and March Disbursement statistics published on its website in Abuja.
The bureau said the committee disbursed over six hundred and forty nine billion naira to the three tiers of government in January; six hundred and sixty billion naira in February and six hundred and nineteen billion naira in March.
Out of the one point ninety two trillion naira, the Federal Government got over eight hundred and three billion naira in the quarter, states received over five hundred and thirty billion naira while the local governments received more than three hundred and ninety three billion naira.

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Revenue: FAAC N635.8bn To FG, States, LGS Share In November - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
December 19, 2019
The Federal, States and Local Governments shared the sumof  six-hundred-and-thirty-five-point-eight billion naira for the month ofNovember.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget andNational Planning, Isa Dutse made this known while addressing newsmen after theFederation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC meeting.
He explained that the amount shared included Value-AddedTax, VAT, Exchange Gain and Forex Equalisation.
According to Dutse, the gross statutory revenue generatedfor the month was four-hundred-and-ninety-one-point-eight billion naira, whichwas lower than five-hundred-and-ninety-sixty-point-zero-four billion nairareceived in the previous month, with a difference ofone-hundred-and-four-point-one billion naira.
The Permanent Secretary said that the Federal Government gottwo-hundred-and-forty-two-point-two billion naira, Statesone-hundred-and-fifty-nine-point-nine billion naira while Local Governmentsreceived one-hundred-twenty-point-two  billion naira, inclusive of VAT.He noted that forty-two-point-one billion nairawas allocated to some states as 13 percent derivation of mineral revenues. Accordingto him, from the Forex Equalisation revenue of fifty threee3 billion naira, theFederal Government received twenty-four-point-two-nine  billion naira,while States got twelve-point-three-two-one billion naira, while the LocalGovernment Councils received nine-point-four-nine-nine billion naira

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Revenue: FG Projects n10.7trn Target For 2022 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (A.M)
January 5, 2022
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this on Tuesday at the
public presentation and breakdown of the 2022 Appropriation Bill in
Abuja.
She said the figure is 32 percent higher than the N8.1trillion projected in
2021.
Debt servicing according to the bill is expected to gulp N3.6trillion.
She further explained that the 2022 budget has a deficit of N6.3trillion
and will be financed from domestic, foreign, multi-lateral loans and
proceed from privitisation.
A total of N2.5 trillion is expected from domestic sources and
N2.5trillion from foreign sources.
Also, N1.1 trillion will be from bilateral loans and N90 billion from
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Revenue: FG Says FIRS Will Continue To Collect VAT - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
September 23, 2021
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, stated this in New York while speaking on the disagreement over the collection of VAT between FIRS and Rivers Government. He also explained that the ruling of the Court of Appeal that FIRS and the Rivers Government maintain status quo, favoured FIRS.
Malami said that it was Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS that had been collecting the VAT before the dispute arose, over which the Rivers government approached the High Court.
It would be recalled that the Rivers State Government had urged the Supreme Court to set aside the Court of Appeal’s September 10 ruling ordering it and FIRS to maintain status quo on the issue of VAT collection.
A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal headed by Haruna Tsammani, issued the order being challenged at the Supreme Court by the Rivers government.

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Revenue: FG To Raise N6tn From Petroleum Tax, Vat - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 14, 2019
The Federal Government, through the Federal Inland Revenue Service, plans to generate 4.3 trillion naira from petroleum profit tax and 1.7trillion naira through the Value Added Tax in 2019.
The amount is part of the 8.8trillion naira tax revenue needed by the government to finance the 2019 budget.
Details of how the revenue would be generated are contained in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework Tax Revenue Projections for 2019-2021.
The document was submitted to the National Assembly by the Executive Chairman of FIRS, Tunde Fowler.
In the document, the FIRS said the 8.8 trillion naira would be realised through two major tax revenue components.
Further breakdown of the oil tax revenue showed that the entire 4.3 trillion naira is expected to come from petroleum profit tax.
For the non oil tax revenue, an analysis of the document shows that 1.7 trillion naira is expected to be earned from company income tax.


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Revenue: FG To Raise N6tn From Petroleum Tax, VAT - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
April 14, 2019
The FederalGovernment, through the Federal Inland Revenue Service, plans to generate 4.3trillion naira from petroleum profit tax and 1.7trillion naira through theValue Added Tax in 2019.
The amount is part ofthe 8.8trillion naira tax revenue needed by the government to finance the 2019 budget.
Details of how therevenue would be generated are contained in the Medium Term ExpenditureFramework Tax Revenue Projections for 2019-2021.
The document wassubmitted to the National Assembly by the Executive Chairman of FIRS, TundeFowler.
In the document, theFIRS said the 8.8 trillion naira would be realised through two major taxrevenue components.
Further breakdown ofthe oil tax revenue showed that the entire 4.3 trillion naira is expected tocome from petroleum profit tax.For the non oil taxrevenue, an analysis of the document shows that 1.7 trillion naira is expectedto be earned from company income tax.


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Revenue Fund: Federal Government To Increase Basic Education’s Funding To 3% - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
November 22, 2021
Head, Public Relations and Protocol, Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC David Apeh, who announced this in a statement in Abuja, said the Director, Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education, Folake Olatunji-David, made the announcement d in Benin, Edo state.
She was speaking at a meeting of UBEC Management with Executive Chairmen of States Universal Basic Education Boards, SUBEBs as representative of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.
The Director also explained that the one per cent increase would be invested in the senior secondary school education segment, adding that the Minister’s representative said the Government is fully committed to bridging the national skills gap.
She said government would support existing institutions while establishing new ones to accelerate production of trained manpower for the different sectors of the economy.
On his part, the Executive Secretary of UBEC, Hamid Bobboyi,  noted that the commission was working to ensure equitable and quality basic education for all children of school age and would not relent in its efforts. He also explained that the success of any system of education was hinged on proper planning and effective implementation.

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Revenue Generation: Buhari To Sanction Agencies Over Failure To Achieve Targets - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
October 1, 2019
President MuhammaduBuhari has warned that severe consequences await any of the nationrevenue-generating agencies that failed to achieve fixed revenue targets.
The President gavethe warning in his Independence Day address to mark Nigeria’s 59th IndependenceAnniversary in Abuja today.
He further warnedthat the revenue-generating and reporting agencies would come under muchgreater scrutiny as to achieve the desired goals.
Buhari explainedthat he recently constituted an Economic Advisory Council to advise him oninclusive and sustainable macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary policies.
The President notedthat the Council would work with relevant Cabinet members and the heads of keymonetary, fiscal and trade agencies to ensure we remain on track as we strivefor collective prosperity.
Buhari assured thatthe government ongoing five hundred thousand billion naira SpecialIntervention Programme, SIP would continue to target these vulnerable groups.

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Revenue Generation: CAC Boss Pledges To Sustain Commision’s Digitization Effort - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (A.M)
August 2, 2021
The Registrar General/CEO of the Corporate Affairs Commission,
(CAC) Garba Abubakar has reiterated his commitment to sustain the
Commission’s digitization effort to enhance its services to Customers as
well generate more revenue for the Government.
Garba Abubakar stated this in Kaduna while declaring open the CAC’s
2021 Management Retreat with the theme “ Digital Economy: The Role
of Corporate Affairs Commission”
The RG who stressed that the Commission was vigorously reforming its
operations in accordance with global best practices revealed that work
on the deployment of Limited Partnership LP and Limited Liability
Partnership LLP was nearing completion.
While speaking on the Commission’s improved revenue, the CAC
Scribe said the Commission last year paid over 3 Billion Naira operating
surplus to the Federation account as well as settled over 5 Billion Naira
inherited Liabilities amongst others.
He lamented that the Commission had prior to his assumption of office
been spending over 101% of its revenue solely on Staff cost.

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Revenue Generation: Federal Government Launches Task Force To Revamp Tv, Radio Advert Market - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
January 19, 2022
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed who inaugurated the 15-member Audience Measurement Implementation Task Force, said it could result in additional 400 million dollar revenue or more in the industry in the next three years.
He also restated that the absence of a scientific audience measurement system had resulted in under-development in the broadcast and advertising industries and stunted their growth.
Mohammed explained that that a world-class audience measurement system was critical to the success of the Digital Switch Over, DSO, which the country is implementing,
The Minister however recalled that in the pursuit of delivering a world class, scientific audience measurement system for Nigeria, he set up a team in 2020 led by Garba Bello-Kankarofi, who drew up the concept. The 15-member task force is chaired by Tolu Ogunkoya while Joe Mutah is the Secretary.
Ogunkoya, while responding on behalf of other members, thanked the Minister for giving them the opportunity to serve and assured that they would put in their best in delivering on the mandate.

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Revenue Generation: Federal Government To Go Tough On Miners Engaging In Sharp Practices - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
November 13, 2019
The Minister of State for Ministryof Mines and Steel Development Uchechukwu Ogah has said that the FederalGovernment would no longer tolerate false declaration of mineral production andother sharp practices by some miners.
Ogah who head of the Committee onthe Optimisation of Revenue from Mineral Resources Sector, spoke in Abujashortly after the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbiteinaugurated the 15-member team.
He noted that it is regrettable thatin spite of the huge potential in the solid minerals sector, it was notcontributing enough to the country`s Gross Domestic Product, GDP.
He said the dismal performance wasunacceptable and promised that the committee would work as a strong team toproduce workable strategies that would enable the ministry to reverse the trendwithin the shortest possible time.

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Revenue Generation: FG Commends Dangote’s $30bn Domestic Drive, Road Constructions - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
December 16, 2019
TheFederal Government has commended the Dangote Group for itsproposed plan to expand its domestic revenue generation drive fromfour-billion dollars to thirty-billion dollars annually from 2021, to boost thenation’s economy.
TheMinister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed gave thecommendation during an inspection of the Dangote Refinery,Petro-chemicals, Fertilizer Projects and the Deep-water Jetty at the LekkiFree Trade Zone in Lagos.
Shecommended the foresight and tenacity of, the President of the DangoteGroup, Aliko Dangote, for pursuing the huge projects despite variouschallenges, pledging the Federal Government’s continued support for localbusinesses to thrive and attract investors.
TheMinister noted that the savings from such an investmentwould strengthen Nigeria’s macro economy to attract more investors.
Onhis part, Aliko Dangote, in his address said that the firm had adoptedmeasures that would help it to expand its revenue base from four billiondollars to thirty billion dollars annually beginning from 2021.

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Revenue Generation: Labour Rejects 6% Tenancy, Lease Stamp Duty Agreement - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
July 25, 2020
NLC President Ayuba Wabba who made this known in a statement in Abuja said the Congress noted with dismay the new policy by the Federal Government through the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS stipulating a six per cent stamp duty fee for every tenancy and lease agreement in Nigeria.
The statement also condemned the agreement as the new policy came at a time when the socio-economic pressure arising from coronavirus dislocations was affecting many of Nigerians.
Wabba added that the NLC rejects the new stamp duty policy on rents and leases as it will worsen the situation faced by Nigerian workers most of whom, unfortunately, are tenants.
The labour leader also noted that the principle of public taxation especially progressive taxation all over the world was that the rich subsidizes for the poor and that every tax policy that would be enforceable must create a safety net for the poor.


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Revenue Increament: Federal Government To Introduce New Taxes - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
March 28, 2019
TheMinister of Finance Zainab Ahmed said the Federal Government has devised a newrevenue initiative to increase revenue to fund the 2019 budget.
Shetold member of the National Assembly Committees’ on Appropriation that theinitiative is divided into three areas and appealed for the support of theNational Assembly.
TheMinister explained that the first area is sustainability in revenue generationand second one is to identify new and enhance the enforcement of existingrevenues streams, while the third area is achieving cohesion in the revenueecosystem.
Zainabdid not state the details of the new taxes. She noted that the federalgovernment is making efforts to ensure that the performance of the 2019 budgetexceeds that of 2018.


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Revenue: NEITI Confirms FG, States, LGS Shared N8.15trn In 2019 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
February 14, 2020
TheNigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI says the Federal,States, Local Governments and other statutory recipients by the FederationAccounts and Allocation Committee, FAAC shared about 8.15 trillion naira in2019.
NEITIin its quarterly report, said the figure is 377 billion naira or 4.42 per centlower than the 2018 figure of 8.524 trillion naira, but 1.728 trillion naira or26.92 per cent higher than the total disbursements of 6.419 trillion naira madein 2017.
Outof this amount, it said the Federal Government received 3.37 trillion; the 36states got 2.761 trillion naira, while the 774 local governments shared 1.649trillion naira of the total disbursements.
Thepublication which examined FAAC Disbursements to the Federal, States and Localgovernments in 2019, compared to the disbursements of the previous years andmade projections for the year 2020.
Itnoted that in line with the revenue sharing formula, the FG received thehighest disbursements from FAAC while local governments got the lowest.

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Revenue: NEITI Says Nigeria Lost $16bn To Production Sharing Contracts - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
March 1, 2019
The Nigeria ExtractiveIndustries Transparency Initiative, NEITI said that Nigeria lost at least 16billion dollars in ten years due to non-review of the 1993 Production SharingContracts, PSC with oil companies.
This was one of thehighlights of the latest report by NEITI released in Abuja which was tagged“The Steep Cost of Inaction”. It said that the losses were recorded between2008 and 2017.
The study done inconjunction with Open Oil, a Berlin-based extractive sector transparency group,found that the losses could be up to 28 billion dollars if, after the review,the Federation were allowed to share profit from two additional licenses.
NEITI, therefore,called for an urgent review of the PSCs to stem the huge revenue losses to theFederation.
It added that thereview was particularly important for Nigeria because oil production from PSCshad surpassed production from Joint Ventures with PSCs now contributing thelargest share to federation revenue.


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Revenue: Nigeria Earned N28.6trn From Oil, Non-Oil Sources In 5 Years - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 23, 2019
TheNigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI has said thattwenty eight point six trillion naira was remitted to the Federation Account between2012 and 2016, from mineral revenues, non-mineral revenues and Value Added Tax,VAT.
NEITIannounced this in a statement by its Director of Communications and Advocacy,Orji Ogbonnaya Orji on its latest Fiscal Allocation and Statutory Disbursement,FASD Audit reports for the period 2012-2016 in Abuja.
Itnoted that apart from remittances to the Federation Account, the audit trackedstatutory allocations and their applications with specific focus on ninestates, four interventionist agencies, and five special funds.
Thenine states covered were Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Nasarawa, Delta, Ondo,Imo, Kano and Gombe.
Italso listed the Federal agencies as Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC,Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, Tertiary Education Trust Fund,TETFUND; and Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA.

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Revenue: President Buhari Directs Deployment Of Technology To Tax Digital Transactions - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 22, 2021
Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha announced this at the 17th General Assembly and 10th anniversary of the West Africa Tax Administration Forum, WATAF in Abuja, with the  theme, “The Taxation of the Digital Economy: Exploring Untapped Revenue Sources in Africa” was as good an illustration that would make them to continue to work together as partners. The assembly is a high-level policy dialogue on taxation of the digital economy, organised by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS.
He explained that the President gave the order to tax authority to ensure digital transactions were taxed digitally,  and the goal of their efforts was to achieve seamless digital collection and remittance of tax revenue accrued from the digital economy.
Mustapha added that Buhari had directed the deployment of technology to good effect in revenue collection and remittance as a matter of government policy.
In his remarks, the Chairman of FIRS, Mohammed Nami said  the importance of the role of WATAF could not be overemphasised  because the reason was set up by the founding fathers, was to create the atmosphere for dialogue on collaborative efforts. He also noted that the aim was not only still valid but growing in importance, and   stressed the need for more synergy.

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Revenue Sharing Formula: Northwest Demands More Allocation To States, LGAs - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 27, 2021
They argued that the two tiers of government should take 60 per cent
while the Federal Government takes 40 per cent, pointing out that state
governments are also saddled with funding of security apparatus, which
is the sole responsibility of the Federal Government.
The states – Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Jigawa, Kebbi and Zamfara
in their separate presentations, made the demand during the zonal
public hearing on the review of the current allocation formula, held in
Kaduna.
In the current sharing arrangement, the Federal Government is entitled to
52.68 per cent, while state governments get 26.72 per cent and LGAs
receive 20.6 per cent.
Meanwhile, Chairman of RMAFC, Elias Mbam, has explained that the
revenue allocation formular has not been reviewed for 29 years contrary
to Constitutional provisions of every five years because of socio-
economic and political changes in the country. The allocation was last
reviewed in 1992.
He said the Commission was ready to present a new revenue sharing
formula to the President for onward transmission to the National
Assembly by December, adding that ongoing consultation and
sensitisation across the country were aimed at avoiding past pitfalls that
made past attempts to review the formula unsuccessful.

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Revised Budget: FG Gives National Assembly N27bn For Renovation, Cuts Health, UBE Votes - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 3, 2020
The Federal Government has reduced the 37 billion naira budget for the renovation of the National Assembly complex to 27.7 billion naira.
The Federal Government, in the 2020 revised budget proposal, according to documents obtained by our correspondent, cut 9.3 billion naira from the budget for the renovation of the National Assembly complex.
The renovation of the complex at the initial cost of 37 billion, which is to be executed by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, attracted criticisms from a large section of Nigerians last year.
However, following the drop in the price of crude oil and a fall in the projected government revenue, it was learnt that the Federal Government decided to reduce the budget for the renovation.
President Muhammadu Buhari, had presented the 2020 Appropriation Act Bill to the National Assembly, which both the Senate and the House passed for second reading same day.
Buhari explained that the amendment became necessary in view of the sharp decline in crude oil prices and the cut in Nigeria’s crude oil production quota occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.


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Revoke Surveillance Contract, Northern Group Tells Buhari - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 29, 2022
The group also called for the sack of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva over the award of the contract.
The NYC noted that the contract was uncalled for, adding that the regime was promoting militancy with the move.
In a statement by the group’s spokesperson, Matazu Yusuf, the council said it would mobilise Northern youths across the country for a massive protest as well as take legal action if the government does not act after the expiration of the given ultimatum.
Yusuf also accused the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, of allegedly playing the ethnic card by surrendering the surveillance of the nation’s critical infrastructure to militants.
He noted that the group has submitted a protest letter to the President, Muhammadu Buhari.


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Revolution: Burkina Faso Opens Trial On 1987 Sankara Murder - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 11, 2021
Compaore and 13 others in the trial opening on Monday face charges in the death of Sankara, described by his followers as the African Che Guevara. The killing of Sankara has for years cast a dark shadow over the Sahel state.
Sankara and 12 others were killed by a hit squad in October 1987 during a coup that brought his friend and comrade-in-arms Compaore to power.
Compaore ruled the country for the next 27 years before being deposed by a popular uprising and fleeing to neighbouring Ivory Coast, which granted him citizenship.
The Burkina Faso former President and General Gilbert Diendere, who once headed the elite Presidential Security Regiment, face charges of complicity in homicide, harming state security and complicity in the concealment of corpses.

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Revolution March: DSS Urges Nigerians To Disregard Threat - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 6, 2019
The Department of State Services, DSS has called onNigerians to disregard threat of revolution by Omoyele Sowore.
He also confirmed that Sowore, who was to lead a groupknown as ‘RevolutionNow’ on a protest slated for today, August 5 is in theservice’s custody.
The DSS’ Public Relations Officer, Peter Afunanya, whomade the call while addressing newsmen in Abuja said the arrest of Sowore wasfor threatening public safety, peaceful co-existence and social harmony in thecountry.
According to Afunanya, the service is charged with theresponsibility of managing, curtailing, containing and eliminating threatsagainst national security.
He said that there was apprehension and anxiety amongcitizens as to what would happen next because of the threat. Afunanya saidgovernment had been elected democratically, adding that there would not be anyforceful takeover by any individual or group.

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Revolution Now: Court Orders Release Of Sowore - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 24, 2019
A Federal High Court has ordered therelease of Omoleye Sowore convener of the revolution now movement.
Sowore was arrested August 3 forconvening a nationwide protest with the theme: #RevolutionNow.
The presiding Judge, Justice TaiwoTaiwo ordered that Sowore’s International passport be submitted to the chiefregistrar of the Court within forty eight hours.
Justice Taiwo said that since theforty five-days detention order had elapsed and not renewed, also in view ofthe motion ex-parte earlier withdrawn, there was no extant order for Sowore’scontinuous detention.
He explained that although there wasinformation filed to the Court on September 23, by one Tanko Musa,the information was not before him yet.
The Judge also ordered that Sowore’slawyer, Femi Falana must be responsible for him, once there is a formal chargeagainst him in Court.

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Revolution Now: Fifty Civil Groups Petition UN, AU Over Sowore's Continued Detention - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
September 30, 2019
Fifty civil society groups,including the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights CDHR, Media RightsAgenda, MRA and Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, among others have written the United Nations, UN and the African Union, AU overthe continued detention of the organiser of #RevolutionNow protest, OmoyeleSowore, by the Federal Government.
The groups who demanded theimmediate release of Sowore, also decried his being kept in custody by thePresident Buhari administration amid a subsisting Court ruling ordering hisfreedom.
Sowore was arrested on August 3 thisyear by the Department of State Services, DSS for inciting Nigerians againstsome challenges in the polity.
An Abuja High Court had on September24 ordered the secret police to release the pro-democracycampaigner.
The human rights and press freedomorganisations are renewing their call on the two global and continental bodiesto fast-track the freedom of Sowore.

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#Revolution now Protest: Malami Says Federal Government Investigating Sowore-DSS Incident - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 12, 2019
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister ofJustice Abubakar Malami, SAN, has stated that the Federal Government hascommenced investigation into the incident that happened between the operativesof the Department of State Service, DSS and Omoyele Sowore, Convener,#RevolutionNow protest, at an Abuja High Court.
Malami made this known while speaking with newsmen shortlyafter he visited the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsohoand the President, National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Benedict Kanyip.
It would be recalled that the DSS operatives had rearrestedSowore after the court proceeding on December 6th.
He, though, said his visit to the Chief Judge was not overSowore’s case but to congratulate Justice Tsoho on his confirmation by theSenate as the substantive Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.
Malami also paid a courtesy visit to the President, NationalIndustrial Court of Nigeria, Benedict Kanyip, on his confirmation assubstantive head of the court.

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Revolution Protest Marches: Coalition Of Northern Groups Criticize Convener - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 6, 2019
Revolution Protest Marches: Coalition Of NorthernGroups Criticize Convener
TheCoalition of Northern Groups, CNG has berated groups calling for “revolution”marches across the country, describing them as agents of destabilization.
Thegroup’s spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Sulaiman said at a news conference in Kadunathat the groups were at best agents of a foreign destabilization plot againstNigeria.
Headded that the group remained unshakable in its understanding that every civildisagreement can be resolved through honest, sincere and open discussionswithout unnecessary recourse to actions liable to further inflame tensionswithout achieving lasting results.
Suleimancalled on Northerners to disregard the calls and resist the temptation of beingdragged into participating in any way, in a movement that would turn out to thedisadvantage of the region.
TheSpokesman added that the North, at all times remain ready to enter into anycivilized and decent discussion with any part of the country for whateverintent and purpose without succumbing to temptations of exposing innocent livesto unnecessary danger.


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Revolutionnow: Court Threatens To Jail DSS DG Over Sowore's Continued Detention - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
September 27, 2019
An Abuja High Court has threatened to jail the DirectorGeneral of the Department of State Services, DSS Yusuf Bichi for the continuedimprisonment of the convener of the revolution-now-movement, Omoyele Sowore.
The Court ruled that the previous order issued for the DSSto detain Sowore for forty-five days had lapsed Tuesdau, and ordered that he beimmediately released.
In a notice addressed to Bichi, the Court criticized the DSSBoss for not releasing Sowore despite an order issued to that regard. But theDSS denied disobeying the Court orders and explained why Sowore was still inits custody.
DSS Spokesman, Peter Afunanya said that Sowore and hislawyers had not concluded the process that would enable the Service to complywith the Court order. He added that Sowore’s lawyers are competent to know therequired documents to show before he could be released.

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#RevolutionNow: FG Opens Sowore’s Trial In Treasonable Felony Charge - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 12, 2020
The Federal Government has opened its case in the trial of convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, by calling its first witness, an operative of the Department of State Service, DSS Rasheed Olawale.
Sowore and Olawale Bakare arestanding trial on a two-count charge bordering on treasonable felony and wereinitially arraigned by the DSS last September but the Ministry of Justice latertook over the prosecution of the case.
Led in evidence by prosecutioncounsel, Aminu Alilu, the first prosecution witness said he led the team ofoperatives who arrested Sowore last August in Lagos. According to the witness,Sowore was arrested at Montana residence in Lagos.
The trial Judge, Justice IjeomaOjukwu, in a short ruling, held that the witness was giving his testimonyoutside the scope of his written statement made earlier. She added although thewitness does not have to use the exact words used in his written statement, heis limited to the scope of evidence adduced and adjourned to April 1 and 2 forcontinuation of the first witness’ evidence and trial.


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Rice: Experts, Stakeholders Call For Sustainability In Nigeria’s Local Production - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 22, 2021
It was reported that respondents from the geopolitical region also assert that production and consumption of local rice is beneficial to the country as the Nigerian rice is more nutritious, tastier and cheaper than the foreign one. They said consumption of locally produced rice created wealth and enabled the country to save foreign exchange.
An agro- industry and value chain expert, Chijioke Osuji said Nigeria in the past two years had achieved self-sufficiency in rice production to a great extent. He however stressed the need to sustain the production of the staple food, something which he noted had always been a challenge in the country.
Also, Chairman, Rice Farmers, Processors, Producers, Millers and Marketers Association of Nigeria, Rivers state chapter, Akandu Godwin, said Nigerians had a lot to gain from production and consumption of local rice. He also agreed that the importance of local rice production ranged from availability of food to job creation.
An agriculturist, Timothy Funpere, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, noted that since the ban on importation of rice, locally produced rice had become the favorite of many households in the state. He added that the price of available foreign rice has jumped between 12,500 naira and 14, 500 naira to 30,000 naira while local rice is sold for 26,000 naira.


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Rice: Farmers In Support Of Border Closure, Pledge Improved Production - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 27, 2019
Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, RIFAN expresses support for the closure of borders by the Federal Government, assuring that rice farmers will work harder to increase local rice production in the country.
The South-West RIFAN Vice President Victor Korede,gave the assurance in an interview on Friday in Ibadan.
Korede said the border closure would add a lot ofeconomic benefits to the nation, create opportunities for the farmers toproduce more rice and to have easy access to markets.
He implored the government not to back down itsdecision as the hike in price of rice would not last, rather efforts should befurther gathered to encourage local rice production through existing windows.
Korede said that appraisal of various food securityprogrammes should be duly carried out to improve upon successes attained, whileloopholes found should be blocked.
He said that mechanisation should retain its primeplace in farming with recognition of micro, small and large scale farmers;awareness of planting quality seeds should increase and made available at affordableprice to farmers.


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Rice: Finance Minister Blames Rising Cost On Smuggling - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 12, 2021
The Minister said smuggling is affecting the market and hurting the
citizens.
She also reiterated the Federal Government’s efforts in fighting
smuggling, noting that there is a combined team of the Nigerian
Customs Service (NCS), Police, the Department of Security Services
(DSS) among others to rid the nation of economic saboteurs.
The Minister also reacted to the fresh borrowing request by the Federal
Government which was recently approved by the National Assembly.
According to her, the Federal Government has created a Medium-Term
Debt Management Strategy, noting that the borrowings are not being
done by fiat.
The borrowing that was approved by the lawmakers, the Minister noted,
has been in the National Assembly since early this year.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in May, asked the Senate to approve
the loan request.
The 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan contained a request
for approval in the sum of $36.8 billion, €910 million, and a grant
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Rice: RIFAN Flags Off 2019 Dry Season Farming - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 20, 2019
Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria,RIFAN hasflagged off its multi billion naira 2019 dry season rice farming.
RIFAN President, Aminu Goroyo, said during the flagoff in Abuja, that the project was executed under the Central Bank on Nigeria AnchorBorrowers programme .
The president however, said that the association wasworking out the fund modalities with the bank.
He said that the planting would commencesimultaneously in the 774 local government areas of the 36 states of thefederation and FCT.
Goroyo said that each state and the FCT wouldcommence distribution of high breed seeds and farm inputs to over 700,000participating farmers that were expected to cultivate 570,000 hectares of land.
He said that most farmers are enthusiastic about thedry season farming because they were sure of high yields.
Goroyo stressed that the federal government decisionto ban rice importation was another source of encouragement as it had startedyielding the desired result.

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Rice: UNDP’S Intervention Will Boost Production In Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 10, 2019
The UnitedNations Development Programme, UNDP says its intervention in the agriculturalsector would boost rice production in Nigeria.
The ProjectManager for UNDP-Global Environment Facility Integrated Approach Programme onFood Security, Rhoda Dia made this known in in Gombe.
Dia saidthat the intervention in the area of good agricultural practices and trainingfor key stakeholders in the agricultural value chain would enhance theknowledge of farmers in rural areas to boost rice production.
According tothe Project Manager, Nigeria’s good potential in rice production, if properlyharnessed, will impact greatly on the economy and enrich more farmers,especially those who have embraced the use of improved seedlings.

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Rigakafi: An Gano Allurar Jabu A Nijar - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
March 16, 2019
A Jamhuriyar Nijar,hukumomin sun gano wani nauyin allurar hana kamuwa da cutar sankarau na jabuda yanzu haka ake samu a wasu wurraren sayar da magunguna a Birnin Yameh.
Ministan kiwo lafiya, awata sanarwa da ya sanyawa hannu ya na mai kira ga jami’an kiwon lafiya su yihatara tareda kira ga al’umma don ganin sun tseguntawa jami’an tsaro irinwurraren da ake sayar da wadanan allurai na jabu.Ranar alhamis ne ayayin wani bincike daga jami’an kiwon lafiya na birnin Yameh, a wanin shagonsayar da magunguna suka tayar da wannan launin allura, wanda ake zaton shine yahaddasa mutuwar mutane kusan 500 a shekara ta 2015 da wasu 200 a shekara ta2017 a lokacin da cutar ta kunno kai a wasu sassan kasar.


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Rights Violation: ECOWAS Court Tasks Nigerians On Protection - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
October 5, 2019
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has called onNigerians to avail themselves of the availability of the Court to protect theirrights.
A member of the Court, Justice Dupe Atoki gave theadvice at a news conference held in Lagos,  on the Sensitisation Programmeof the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice.
Atoki said that the reason for sensitisation wasbecause there was lack of full knowledge of the existence of the ECOWAS Courtof Justice and its working.
She said the Court had to create awareness to improveon the knowledge of the citizens by collaborating with every relevantstakeholders that could spread and provide adequate means in which the citizenswould get to know their rights.According to Atoki, individuals can access thecourt by lodging complaints of violations of human rights, which they haveexperienced from Member States.

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Rikici: ‘Yan Sanda Sun Ba Da Belin Abdulmumin Jibrin - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 23, 2019
Rundunar yan sandanjihar Kano ta ce an karbi belin dan majalisar wakilai Abdulmumin Jibrin, da ta gayyatasakamakon samun wani rikici.
Jami’in hudda da jama’ana rundunar DSP Haruna Abdullahi, ya tabbatar da haka.
‘Yan sanda dai sun gayyacidan majalisar ne da ke wakiltar mazabr Kiru da Babeji a majalisar wakilai tareda wasu ‘yan siyasa kan zargin haddasa rikici.
An zargi Abdulmimin dasauran ‘yan siyasar ne da laifin hana wata tawaga wuce wa, dalilin da ya haifartashin hankali da rasa rayuka.
Daga cikin wadanda ‘yansanda suka kama har da shugaban karamar hukumar Babeji.
Rundunar ‘yan sandan tace za ta ci gaba da bincike bayan da ta ba da belin Abdulmumin Jibrin.

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Rikicin APC: Sanatan Marafa Ya Aike Wa Kotun Daukaka Kara Takarda - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
March 19, 2019
Shugabankwamitin man fetur na majalisar dattawa Sanata Kabiru Marafa, ya rubuta takardazuwa ga shugaban kotun daukakak kara ta Nijeriya game da rigimar jam’iyyar APCa jihar Zamfara.
Marafaya aika takardar ne zuwa ga mai shari’a, Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, ya na maikokawa da bata lokacin da ake samu wajen nada mutanen da za su duba rikicin daya dabaibaye jam’iyyar APC a jihar Zamfara.
Sanatanya shaida wa mMai shari’a Zainab Bulkachuwa cewa, jinkirin da kotun ta ta ke yiwajen fitar da kwamitin da zai saurari kukan ‘yan jam’iyyar APC a jihar Zamfara,alamu ne da ke nuna za a yi masu rashin adalci a gaban shari’a.
Marafaya rubuta wa shugabar kotun takardar ne tun ranar 13 ga Watan Maris tare dawasu mutane 142, inda ya tunawa kotun cewa akwai bukatar a duba lamarin APC najihar kafin lokaci ya kure, domin lokacin da doka ta tanada don a dauki matakia jam’iyyar ya na daf da kure masu.


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Rikicin Kabilanci: An Kashe Mutane Biyu, An Kona Gidaje 38 A Jihar Nasarawa - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
March 27, 2019
Akallamutane biyu sun rasa rayukan su, yayin da gidaje 38 su ka kone a wani rikicinkabilanci da ya barke a garin Andaha da ke hukumar Akwanga ta jihar Nasarawa.
Mazaunakauyuka uku da ke kusa da garin da rikicin ya faru sun kaurace wa gidajen susaboda tsoron kai harin daukar fansa a kan su.
Mutanen,sun fara kaurace wa gidajen su ne bayan samun rahoton kashe wata budurwa maishekaru 19 da ake zargin wasu ‘yan ta’adda da aikatawa.
Kakakinrundunar ‘yan sanda na jihar Nasarawa Sama’ila Usman, ya tabbatar wa manemalabarai afkuwar rikicin.
Acewar sa, rikicin ya samo asali ne bayan wasu ‘yan ta’adda  sun yi wa wasu mata uku ‘yan kabilar Madafyade yayin da su ke kan hanyar komawa gida daga wani biki da su ka halarta agarin Katanza.
Kakakinya ce, ‘yan ta’addan sun lakada wa daya daga cikin ‘yan matan mai suna JoyDanlami duka, lamarin da ya yi sanadiyar mutuwar ta.


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Rikicin Kofa: ‘Yan Sanda Sun Kama Dan Majalisar Wakilai Abdulmumin Jibrin - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 22, 2019
Rundunar‘yan sanda ta jihar Kano, ta kama dan majalisar wakilai na mazabar  Kiru da Bebeji Abdulmumin Jibrin, dangane da harinda aka kai wa tawagar tsohon gwamnan jihar Rabi’u Kwankwaso.
Wasuda ake zargin ‘yan daba ne magoya bayan dan majalisar su ka kai wa ayarinKwankwaso hari, bayan sun yi wa wata hanyar shiga kauyen Kofa kawanya tare da yunkurinhana mutane shiga kauyen.
Akallamutane biyar aka kashe, yayin da wasu da dama su ka ji rauni lokacin dabangarorin biyu su ka yi arangama da juna, an kuma kona gidan dan majalisar,yayin da aka kona motoci sama da 10 kurmus.
Mataimakinsufeto janar na ‘yan sanda Danbature da kwamishinan ‘yan sanda na jihar KanoMohammed Wakili, sun ziyarci wajen da lamarin ya faru, sannan su ka badaumurnin a kama dan majalisar.
Majiyoyintsaro sun bayyana cewa, tuni aka garzaya da majalisar zuwa helkwatar rundunarda ke Bompai a cikin birnin Kano domin amsa tambayoyi.

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Rikicin Siyasa: Mutane 2 Sun Mutu An Lalata Motoci 35 A Lagos - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
March 8, 2019
Akallamutane biyu su ka rasa rayukan su, yayin da aka lalata motoci 35 tare da fashe-fashenshaguna a wani rikici da ya barke tsakanin bangarorin jam’iyyar APC a Oto-Aworida ke yankin Ijanikin a Legas.
Rikicindai ya barke ne tsakanin magoya bayan dan takarar jam’iyyar APC daga bangarenOjo, wanda ke neman kujerar majalisar jihar Legas, da wani abokin hamayyar sada bai samu nasarar lashe zaben fidda gwani ba.
Watamajiya ta ce rikicin ya barke ne a lokacin da dan takarar APC mai suna Jafo yaziyarci fadar Oloto na Awori, inda wasu matasa su ka yi kokarin hana shi shiga.


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Rikicin Siyasa: Rundunar ‘Yan Sanda Ta Kama Sanata Rafiu Ibrahim Na Jihar Kwara - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
February 22, 2019
Rahotannina cewa, rundunar ‘yan sanda ta kama Sanata Rafiu Ibrahim mai wakiltar mazabarKwara ta Kudu a jihar Kwara,
Andai kama Sanatan ne, biyo bayan wani rikici da ya barke a garin Ojuku namazabar Kwara ta Kudu, wanda ya sa jam’iyyar APC tada jijiyoyin wuya tare dabukatar rundunar ‘yan sanda ta kama shi a matsayin silar barkewar rikicin.
Akallamutane biyu ne aka kashe a wajen rikicin, yayin da mutane da dama su kajikkata, rikicin da jam’iyyar PDP da APC ke zargin juna game da barkewarrikicin.
Shugabankungiyar matasan jam’iyyar PDP na mazabar Kwara ta Kudu Muideen Abdulrahman, yace hakan alama ce ta cewa rundunar ‘yan sanda ta na taka rawar kidan jam’iyyarAPC.
MaiMagana da yawun Sanata Bukola Sarakai, Olu Onemola, ya nuna rashin gamsuwa damatakin da rundunar ‘yan sandan ta dauka.
Yace kama sanatan alama ce karara da ke nuna cewa gwamnatin APC ba ta daukidemokaradiyyar Nijeriya bakin komai ba, kuma ta na amfani da rundunar ‘yansanda domin cimma muradin ta na siyasa.


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Rikicin Zabe: Jami’an Tsaro Sun Daidaita Akalar Zaben Cike Gurbi Na Kano - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
March 23, 2019
Bayanan da ke fito wadaga jihar Kano sun nuna cewa, jami’an tsaro sun dauki matakan gaggawa wajentabbatar da cewa komai ya tafi daidai a guraren da aka kusa samun tangarda ayayin gudanar da zabukan cike gurbi na jihar da aka gudanar a Asabar dinnan.
Tun da fari dai an samurahotannin da ke nuni da cewa, a wasu daga cikin mazabun an so a samu hargitsisakamakon zafin da bangarori biyu na manyan jam’iyyun jihar da ke fafatawa,watau APC da PDP, su ka dauka.
Wasu rahotanni sun ce,jami’an tsaro sun kama kwamishinan ayyuka na musamman Muntari Ishak Yaksai, dadan majalisar dokokin jihar Baffa Babba Dan’Agundi, amma daga bisani rundunar‘yan sanda ta karyata rahoton.
Bugu da kari, an samuhargitsi a wasu wurare, to amma mafi yawan runfunar zaben, an gudanar da komailafiya ba tare da samun tashin-tashina ba.
A tattaunawarsa da manemalabarai, mukaddashin shugaban ‘yan sanda na kasa mai kula da zaben na Kano, DIGAntony Micheal Ogbizi, ya ce, a Gama da ke karamar hukumar Nassarawa, an samufitowar jama’a sosai kuma zaben ya tafi lafiya kalau.
Ya ce a ‘yan kalilanwasu wuraren da a ka samu sa’insa sun shiga tsakani, don dawo da zaman lafiya,ya kara da cewa, ba su samu rahoton kawo ‘yan daba a zaben ba, inda ya ce sunzuba isassun ‘yan sanda,  Jita-jitar cewaan kama wasu kwamishinoni karya ce tsagwaron ta.